2023-24 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Sep 07, 2024  
2023-24 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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REC 570 - Outdoor Education Practicum

Outdoor living skills and environmental appreciation. Techniques and practices of outdoor education, organized camping and back-country travel. Spring lab on campus followed by summer session at Raquette Lake. Participants are assessed a practicum fee. Not open to students with credit for REC 370. Prerequisites which may be taken concurrently: EDU 568 or REC 503 or 541 or 549 or 560 or 569 or 574 or 610 or 640. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring; M = offered in summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge of outdoor living skills.
  2. Reflect on the transformative power of recreation experiences for individuals and groups, including increase in sense of community, sense of place, well-being, resilience and nature relatedness, and decrease in situational fears.
  3. Implement principles and practices of safety, emergency and risk management related to recreation, parks and leisure services.
  4. Identify and explain broad concepts, ideas, theories, and management principles observed over the two-week experience at Raquette Lake that were defined and taught in co-requisite course(s), relating how they were applied in practice at the Outdoor Education Practicum. 



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